Archive for the tag Fucked Up
Pan (and bisexual) people are often subjected to violence both within and outside the community with words like ‘greedy’ attached to their choices of who to love. Not only is that hypocritical to say, it is also something we should all consciously fight.
Love Starts With You- Fighting Internalised Homophobia
Manifestations of internalized homophobia can include: denial of sexual orientation to oneself and others, attempts to alter or change one’s sexual orientation, discomfort with other gay people, unsafe sexual practices and other destructive risk-taking behaviours, including risk for HIV and other STIs.
8 LGBT Parenting Myth Busters
Homoparental/queer families are creations of love just like any other family. They are made to support, to raise and to fall back on.
Poem: A Naïve Sin
I stand still looking down at your hand holding the knife,
My body is trembling with fear but you want me to pay you with my life.
The spectators want me to plead for forgiveness in this time,
So forgive me, for I didn't know love was a crime.
Poem: From Bindi With Love
A piece of adhesive
Of the colour red.
The scream of a woman -
“Chakka hai ki ladki?”
Her spectacled eyes
Upon my bindi.
Graphic Story: Surprise!
This Lesbian Visibility Day, we're talking about how ‘surprising’ it is that two women end up together even though they’ve obviously been going out.
C for Consent : Navigating Intimacy In Queer Relationships
If the #MeToo movement has made anything clear is that people certainly need to gain a better understanding of what consent means, and what respecting your partner entails.
The Ugly, Bad, and Good in Nandini Krishnan’s Invisible Men & 5 ‘Woke’ Critiques You Must Check Out
It is the trans community itself which has criticized the work severely, citing misrepresentation and misgendering of the community as well as the Meitei community in Manipur. They have called out the casteism, ableism, and the Brahminical overtones among other problematic elements.
To The Teachers Who’ve Made Me Feel Unsafe
Classrooms are supposed to be safe spaces that allow everyone to learn, socialize and innovate. Let me tell you that none of that applies to most classrooms.
A ‘Bikini Body’ Is A Body In A Bikini.
Here are accounts of body shaming faced by queer desis in different walks of their lives with different people- some close, some not very close.
Fiction: Ginger Tea
I placed the tray on the table between our chairs and handed Ma her cup. Her first sip was chased by a grunt. “There is ginger in this. I didn’t say I wanted ginger.” My mother never wanted ginger in her tea. My mother also never liked tea without ginger.
Privilegendered Narrative: A Card I Was Born With.
Growing up, my choice to be effeminate was not questioned, it was enforced, applauded, supported, reinforced.
Dancing On Your Toes: How Gender Roles Inhibit Self Expression in Art
Bollywood, a cesspool of misogyny, markets films with item numbers done by females while the male protagonists project a supposedly “macho” or “cool” image and these roles have never been reversed barring a few films here and there.
Caste My Labels Away: The Battle For Caste Oppressed Queer Individuals.
The institution of privilege is very important in understanding the entire discussion of navigating through caste-oppressed queer identities today.
Halloween Special: Visited
The stifled music was coming from an arms distance from him. Not from a radio, but from a person.
Screening Stereotypes: Lesbians And The Media
The depiction of queer relationships in media works as an agent of social sexualization and is particularly more influential in the Indian society where sex is not discussed, even for educative purposes.
Pleasure, Agency And Taboo: Exploring Masturbation As An Indian Woman
I realised that there is a fear of women who are in charge of their sexuality
Traveling While Trans
A quick Google Search shows that people identifying as trans or gender non-conforming often face issues when traveling.
Review Stand-Up Show: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
‘Nanette’ is no ordinary stand-up special. Hannah Gadsby is 40-year-old, gay, Tasmanian comic whose decade-long career in comedy has been built on self-deprecating humour. But she decides to change things up this time.
Brown, Fat, And Androgynous
In search of brown faces like my own, what I find are white people. Skinny people. And a standard of androgyny that entirely depends upon a binary concept of gender.